The Early Bronze Age of the Southern Levant: A landscape approach

Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 103-132

  Philip, Graham ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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AGRICULTURE; ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; BRONZE AGE; LANDSCAPE HISTORY; SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS;

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